Clinicians and other health system actors have unique ability to assist in the success of their patients’ applications to safety net programs.
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Unlocking Access: The Connections Between Medical Certifications and Health Equity (2019)
Medical-Legal Partnership has evolved from referral-based advocacy for individual patients to one of structured integration of preventive law to advance population health.
Home visitors learn more about a family’s situation than other professionals, allowing for preventive legal problem-solving.
This pilot partnership aims to build skills and knowledge among current and future workforce members relating to social determinants of health.
Access to this resource is limited to Unlocking Access subscribers. These partners can access materials designed to help communities of care become stronger partners in problem-solving with the people they serve.
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How the Integration of Case Management and Legal Problem-Solving Prevents Older Adult Homelessness (2016)
Coauthored by ELAHP, the ARC model aims to prevent elder homelessness – or reduce its severity – by strengthening the ability to detect and housing instability risks, provide urgent care for complex legal problems, and affect systems change.
ARC-Year-3-Report-11.7.16Why We Need to Recognize IPV-Parallel Elder Abuse in Housing Law and Public Policy (2016)
Since July 2013, MLPB has partnered with the Elders Living at Home Program (ELAHP), on an initiative known as Aging Right in the Community. This work has exposed complicated elder homelessness risk factors and led us to observe the limits of current housing-based legal protections for victims of elder abuse by adult children.
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